3. Learning
JavaFX — java.net, 6/14
John O’Conner confesses that he stopped tinkering with, reading about,
and writing about JavaFX several years ago believing "JavaFX wasn’t
ready for prime time." However, he now says "JavaFX certainly
seems to be the future of desktop applications," and that for
developers who want to continue developing Java desktop user
interfaces, "the future is JavaFX."

4. JKstat
meet JavaFX — The Trouble with Tribbles, 6/14
Blogger Peter Tribble was excited at the new availability of JavaFX for
Solaris and OpenSolaris and decided to try using JavaFX to make a
graphical front-end to JKstat. Although he was able to integrate
JKstat and JavaFX, he notes a number of issues he encountered getting
it to work to include JavaFX not supporting either Java Collections or
Generics, as well as not being able to put the jni shared library
directly into the right JavaFX library directory.

5. Installing
JavaFX — Learning JavaFX, 6/13
The blogger writes that there are "3 easy ways to get started with
JavaFX Script," noting that although it’s very easy to use JavaFX from
NetBeans "you have plenty of other options too." He then lists
the options to getting all the "tools" necessary to get started with
JavaFX.

6. Why
JavaFX fits the bill for RIAs — IT Knowledge Exchange, 6/12
Jan Stafford has posted a video in which she talked with authors Jim
Clarke and Eric Bruno about JavaFX. She notes that in the
interview they explain how JavaFX "simplifies and improves the RIA
development process."

7. JavaFX
and Google Maps — StartClass 0830, 6/11
The blogger writes that he has recently "taken a very keen interest in
JavaFX" stating that his "exploration with JavaFX has been very
fruitful." He notes JavaFX "is really easy to pick up and to be
productive with it in a matter of hours," and then demonstrates a
project in which he incorporates Google Maps into a JavaFX
application.

8. JavaFX
Script as a general purpose language? — java.net, 6/11
Osvaldo Pinali Doederlein writes in this in-depth analysis that the
Java language has come to a dead-end," and says "JavaFX script really
could be a very viable candidate to the role of successor or companion
to Java as a language for implementation of full Java
applications."

9. JavaFX
binding is neat, but … beware — java.net, 6/11
Fabrizio Giudici writes that he likes binding a lot, but has found some
adverse effects that can arise out of its use in JavaFX. He gives
an example of how an external class has broken even though it was fine
by itself noting "we have injected a problem," and continues to say
"this is a worse breakage than breaking information hiding in Java by
getters/setters."

10. First
look at JavaFX 1.2, Part II — java.net, 6/10
Osvaldo Pinali Doederlein has been testing JavaFX 1.2 using a series of
benchmarks and has noted the "results are surprising," and that "we can
see interesting potential (in JavaFX 1.2)."